Dreyer's English - Benjamin Dreyer 2022

Dreyer's English - Benjamin Dreyer 2022

Introduction

The stuff in the front

The life-changing magic of tidying up (your prose)

The big three

The lesser seven

56 assorted things to do (and not to do) with punctuation

Periods

Commas

Colons

Apostrophes

Semicolons

Parentheses

Brackets

Quotation marks

Hyphens

Dashes

Question marks and exclamation points

1, 2, 3, go

The treatment of numbers

A little grammar is a dangerous thing

Other Dangerous Things: Foreign Affairs

The realities of fiction

The basics of good storytelling

Dialogue and its discontents

A few pointers on unfinished speech

Miscellaneously

The stuff in the back

Notes on, amid a list of, frequently and/or easily misspelled words

Spelling FAQ

Pet peeves

The confusables

Notes on proper nouns

People

A note on initials

Places

Other bits and pieces of social, cultural, and historical arcana that turn up, with reasonable frequency, often misrendered

The trimmables

Copyediting FAQ

The miscellany

Outro: By way of conclusion

Things i like

Acknowledgments

About the author